The Albany Poets Web site announces: In celebration of National Poetry Month, Albany Poets is proud to present the 2007 Albany Word Fest featuring the poetry, spoken word, music, and art of upstate New York. This year’s event will take place on Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21, 2007. The 2007 Albany Word Fest […]
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Whodda thunk it? Stephen Colbert — not the real one but the one Stephen Colbert plays on TV — is not only a commentator, but also (like other commentators) a novelist of the Tek Jensen adventure series. Now along comes some real artwork to go with the fake books written by a fake commentator. Go […]
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A cover story I wrote from the Times Union about two audiobooks by Murakami — clocking in at nearly 1,000 words — is sent out on the wires and any paper that picks up can do whatever they want with it. Here’s what the link to what the Free Press did with it, including giving […]
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Sonia Sanchez is one of the most influential poets of the Black Arts Movement. Read more about her from the Voices from the Gap Web site. She will be speaking tonight at Skidmore College’s Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall, Saratoga Springs at 7 p.m. The playwright, scholar and American Book Award-winning author (“Homegirls and Handgrenades”) gives […]
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From the Guardian: Manchester University will announce an academic coup: Amis has agreed to take up his first teaching role as its professor of creative writing, a decision that will bring the one-time enfant terrible of British literature, author of 11 novels, including Money and London Fields, firmly into the literary establishment. And a quote […]
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I saw a preview of the movie Amazing Grace over the weekend and am not sure what to expect. A lot of white British guys talking about the need to end slavery, and then a black man says, “I was a prince in my country, like you,” I thought — Could this character possibly be […]
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Eleanor at Flights of Fantasy, the Loudonville bookstore, has sent an e-mail saying that the book store has cut prices of all used books by 25 percent. The Web site, http://fof.net/, says: 25% Off Inventory Reduction Sale Stop into the store during the month of February and get 25% off of All Used Paperbacks and […]
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There’s growing chatter online about this (which I first heard thanks to the Complete Review). This discussion is happening at the Open University: ENTHUSIASM FOR A NEW BOOK REVIEW: by Jeffrey Herf Thanks very much to Cass Sunstein, Steven Pinker, Eric Rauchway, Linda Hirshman, Richard Stern, and David Bell. I’m very glad to see their […]
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